Hyptis.] LABIAT& (Cooke). ie 
XI. HYPTIS, Jacq. 
Calyx ovoid-campanulate or tubular, more or less accrescent in 
fruit ; teeth 5, subequal, subulate. Corolla small ; tube cylindric 
or slightly ventricose, equal or slightly enlarged in the throat ; 
limb sub-bilabiate, 5-lobed; upper lobes flat, erect or spreading ; 
lateral lobes usually similar ; lower lobe (lip) saccate, abruptly de- 
flexed in flower, entire or emarginate. Stamens 4, didynamous, 
declinate ; filaments free, without teeth ; anthers confluent, 1-celled. 
Disk entire or swollen in front into a short gland. Style shortly 
2-fid or entire at the tip. Nutlets ovoid or oblong, smooth or 
punctate-rugulose, in a few species surrounded by a membranous 
wing. 
Annual or perennial herbs or shrubs ; inflorescence and habit polymorphous. 
Disrrre. Species 250, all American, a few naturalised in the Old World, 
1. H. pectinata (Poit. in Ann. Mus. Par. vii. 1806, 474, t.30); a 
tall variable annual 4-8 ft. high ; stems erect, branched, pubescent, 
subwoody at the base, obtusely quadrangular ; leaves (in the South 
African specimens) 1-2 in. long, 4-1} in. broad, ovate, obtuse or 
acute, shortly and sparsely hairy and green above, pallid and 
tomentose below, margins irregularly crenate, base rounded or sub- 
cordate ; petioles reaching 1 in. long, pubescent ; cymes racemosely 
arranged, often forming a panicle, after flowering elongate, secund, 
pectinate ; bracts 14 lin. long, setaceous, ciliate ; calyx (flowering) 
1 lin. long, (fruiting) 2 lin. long, tubular ; tube pubescent, truncate 
and hairy within at the mouth; teeth } lin. long, setaceous, pilose ; 
corolla pale purple or yellowish ; tube scarcely reaching | lin. long, 
straight, slightly enlarged towards the mouth ; stamens not exserted ; 
style exserted, shortly 2-fid at the tip; nutlets $ lin. long, ovoid- 
oblong, smooth, brown. Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 127 ; A. Rich. 
Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 186 ; Baker in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. v.448 ; Brig. 
in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 61. Nepeta pectinata, Linn. Syst. 
ed, x. 1097. 
KabaHart REGION: Transvaal ; Barberton, Berea, 2900 ft., Thorncroft, 413 ! 
Eastern Recion : Natal, Gerrard, 405! and 1669! Cooper, 2985 ! Krauss, 330 ! 
TInanda, Wood, 524! 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
XII. HOSLUNDIA, Vahl. 
Calyx small, subequally 5-toothed, becoming much enlarged and 
fleshy when in fruit ; dorsal tooth scarcely larger than the rest, not 
decurrent on the tube. Corolla very small, exceeding the calyx, 
2-lipped ; upper lip 3-lobed ; lower lip concave, entire. Stamens 4; 
upper pair reduced to staminodes, with very rudimentary anthers ; 
lower pair fertile, with rather large reniform l-celled anthers. Disk 
small, crenate. Ovary 4-partite; style filiform, incurved at the 
